1. Cryptonia market


  • Established March/April 2019
  • 12,600 drug listings
  • 515 potential eliquid and vaping related listings



Data Cleaning


  • 63 listings were removed (e.g. if the description did not mention about the product to be used for vaping purposes)
  • Total number of listings used in descriptive analysis below: 452



Results




Dataset




Number of vendors


  • Range of listings: (1-40)
  • number of vendors: 94
  • mean number of listings: 4.8 per seller



## # A tibble: 94 x 2
##    vendor              n
##    <fct>           <int>
##  1 GreenConnection    40
##  2 westcoastplug      39
##  3 THETHCDOCTOR       36
##  4 aKINDercare        22
##  5 KannaMedsUk        20
##  6 teamextract        18
##  7 Marinate           17
##  8 UnrealOrganics     14
##  9 emeraldgemini      13
## 10 "cordova "         12
## # ... with 84 more rows



Types of products sold


Listing categories


Origin of products


Shipping destination






2. Agartha market


  • Agartha Market is an Agora clone
  • Established March/April 2019
  • Most dangerous and deadly drugs are banned.
  • Banned products: Fentanyl, Heroin, Crystal Meth, Crack, MDPV, DNP, Scopalamine or synthetic THC/spice
  • There are lots of synthetic stuff in this market
  • ~70k drug listings (need to check)
  • 1602 potential eliquid and vaping related listings



Data Cleaning


  • 207 listings were removed (e.g. if the description did not mention about the product to be used for vaping purposes)
  • Total number of listings used in descriptive analysis below: 1395



Results




Dataset




Number of vendors


  • Range of listings: 1-195
  • number of vendors: 92
  • mean number of listings: 15.9 per seller



## # A tibble: 91 x 2
##    vendor                  n
##    <fct>               <int>
##  1 "poweldavis "         195
##  2 "jetlove "            132
##  3 "Marinate "            77
##  4 "sanj "                66
##  5 "Cleo710 "             59
##  6 "worldwideservice "    50
##  7 "BENACAR "             48
##  8 "BobbyMitchell "       30
##  9 "massiveshop "         28
## 10 "kingshop "            27
## # ... with 81 more rows



Types of products sold


Listing categories


Origin of products


Shipping destination






3. Tochka market


  • Established 2015
  • ~4k drug listings
  • 88 potential eliquid and vaping related listings



Data Cleaning


  • 6 listings were removed (e.g. if the description did not mention about the product to be used for vaping purposes)
  • Total number of listings used in descriptive analysis below: 82



Results




Dataset




Number of vendors


  • Range of listings: 1-21
  • number of vendors: 20
  • mean number of listings: 4.1 per seller



## # A tibble: 20 x 2
##    vendor              n
##    <fct>           <int>
##  1 thcdoctor42        21
##  2 vapestore          12
##  3 akindercare        11
##  4 alphajack420        8
##  5 mary-jane           6
##  6 treborcannabis      4
##  7 flordevida          3
##  8 9rin9o              2
##  9 exoticpacks         2
## 10 fetaisbetter        2
## 11 marytane            2
## 12 bel_kartel          1
## 13 boomshankar         1
## 14 caligconnect        1
## 15 FUNKYFARMS          1
## 16 ozvape              1
## 17 quicklickvendor     1
## 18 thcliquid24         1
## 19 waxthtazz           1
## 20 wochris             1



Types of products sold


Listing categories


Origin of products


Shipping destination






Other issue: Counterfeit cartridges


  • Dank is a real brand, the black market started disrupting the industry by selling fakes that look identical to real cartidges
  • Dank Vapes (these products contains pesticides or they are often cut with thickening agents like Vitamin E acetate)
  • Credibility of the brand